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From: stevo@uniblab.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom)
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Subject: Re: Where is GALILEO?
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Date: 11 Dec 90 00:39:25 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.174316.27194@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sal9e@amsun13.apma.Virginia.EDU (Stephen A. Lowe) writes:
>I thought that the Galileo spacecraft was supposed to fly
>by Earth this past weekend?  What happened?  Did I get
>the date wrong?  What's the scoop?

It went by as planned, within about 5 miles of the aim point.  (100 miles
would still have been OK.)  It was a couple of seconds early, I think.

Things are quite busy around here with Magellan, so this "encounter"
didn't get all the attention that the Voyager encounters have
received.  Besides, everyone pretty much knew what they were going to
see - not like finding Elvis on Neptune :-) .  The current shuttle
mission has also grabbed some attention.

You'll probably see the Galileo stuff start to trickle out within a
week or so, but they'll be working on the data for years.  They're
planning to correlate and compare the Galileo data with that from
several other instruments (e.g. weather satellites) which collected
data at almost the same time.
-- 
Steve Groom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov  {ames,usc}!elroy!stevo